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GLOBALGAP is a private sector body that sets voluntary standards for the certification of agricultural products around the globe.
The GLOBALGAP standard is primarily designed to reassure consumers about how food is produced on the farm by minimising detrimental environmental impacts of farming operations, reducing the use of chemical inputs and ensuring a responsible approach to worker health and safety as well as animal welfare.
GLOBALGAP serves as a practical manual for Good Agricultural Practice (G.A.P.) anywhere in the world. The basis is an equal partnership of agricultural producers and retailers who wish to establish efficient certification standards and procedures.
The GLOBALGAP website is a comprehensive knowledge base for all interested parties: producers, suppliers, retailers, journalists and consumers. With its clear and easy navigation www.globalgap.org incorporates exhaustive information on the GLOBALGAP standard and its modules and applications.
GLOBALGAP is a single integrated standard with modular applications for different product groups, ranging from plant and livestock production to plant propagation materials and compound feed manufacturing.
The standard serves as a global reference system for other existing standards and can also easily and directly be applied by all parties of the primary food sector. In other words: GLOBALGAP operates like a satellite navigation system. It equips members with a reliable tool kit, which allows each partner in the supply chain to position themselves in a global market with respect to consumer requirements.
Feedback from nearly ten years of working with the standard – with more than one hundred thousand completed audits – has been incorporated to make the new third version of 2007 more relevant to today’s concerns and advanced production techniques.
The comprehensive documentation of the system is organised into five major blocks, each with a set of complementary elements. Users can select the applicable elements of each block to create a tailor-made, user-friendly manual. This selection gives direction to all relevant stages of the GLOBALGAP certification process, including:
system rules referred to as General Regulations (GR),
global G.A.P. requirements referred to as Control Points and Compliance Criteria (CPCC),
inspection documents referred to as Checklists (CL),